Offshore staff
DUBLIN, Ireland -- AMEC has completed the first phase of a conceptual development study for a gas storage project offshore eastern Ireland. Providence Resources subsidiary EIRGAS commissioned the study for the Ulysses scheme in the Kish Bank basin, offshore Dublin.
AMEC started its program in 2008, the scope including planning, capacity modeling, infrastructural integration, and gas sourcing. The results confirm that construction of an offshore natural gas salt cavern storage facility at Ulysses is economically and technically feasible.
Various scenarios have been developed with a range of capacity, off-take export rates, and capital expenditure. Providence plans to acquire technical data relating to the subsurface geology, partly through the drilling of the nearby Dalkey Island exploration prospect.
John O’Sullivan, Providence’s technical director, said: “The initial results from the AMEC Ulysses study are very encouraging as they provide a range of potential project sizes and development concepts which could be built to meet market requirements.
“In outline, if developed, Ulysses could deliver around 50% of Ireland’s storage capacity as set out in EU [European Union] directives through one dedicated offshore facility whilst also providing security of supply through the cold winter months.”
02/01/2011
